美国PHD申请之美国教授教你套磁

一封美国教授关于套磁看法的文章：

International applicants seeking assistantship/admission: please do not send me emails blindly without reading this.

Every day I receive emails from international candidates for information, for advice, and especially requesting financial assistance. Unfortunately, I delete most of them without even reading them carefully. I get so many irrelevant emails that cannot reply to each. Extremely rarely has one caught my attention. Please do not send me emails without reading this first. I am only interested in corresponding to candidates who are exceptional, and have a strong interest and experience in my immediate area of specialization, and I highly prefer ones with a Master's degree.

For your benefit, I have included in this page, some writing tips, when corresponding to me, and perhaps also in writing to other faculty members in US Universities. When corresponding, do not mention your age/date of birth, your gender, nationality etc. These are superfluous information.

I am NOT interested in: Extra-curricular activities, performance in high school or before, TOEFL scores, hobbies, software skills, UNIX/ORACLE/NOVELL certification and other items unrelated to my research area*.

I am SOMEWHAT interested in: Your awards/academic honors, academic records, GPA, GRE score (2200+), experience.

I am HIGHLY interested in: Your publications, research interests (have supporting evidence for your claim, don't just claim you are interested, unless you actually have done some work in the area).

Information I CANNOT provide

1. Chances of getting assistantship in the department (other than my own available research grants - I do not have any right now, although not very likely, it may change in future).

2. Deadlines for assistantship/admission.

3. Any information on admission procedures and policies.

4. Minimum GRE/TOEFL scores required.

5. How to get application forms.

6. Whether a decision for assistantship or admission was made.

7. Other faculty who would be interested in a prospective student's

background (you can easily see faculty research interests from the

department website).

8. When an admission/assistantship decision will be made.

9. Any other information, other than that below,

The only information I CAN provide

1. Compatibility of your interests/background with my own research area.

2. Possibility of getting research support from my own (not departmental) funds. I am always trying to get external funding for my research projects.

3. Possible research areas you could work on with your background, with me.

总结：

1、套磁信中不应该包括课外活动、高中及以前的表现、TOEFL分数、爱好、电脑软件技能以及和教授研究领域无关的证书，因为教授对这些不感兴趣

2、教授对你的获奖经历，GPA成绩，GRE，学术经验是有一些兴趣的，可以适当的写

3、教授最感兴趣的：学生的出版论文、研究兴趣（不能仅仅说自己感兴趣，需要有具体的证据说明）